April 18, 1929: On this date, Jean Jülich was born. At the age of 13 he joined the Edelweiß Pirates, an informal network of German youth with non-conformist to oppositional behaviors against the enforced social conformity of the Third Reich. Some Pirates engaged in active antifascist resistance, defacing Nazi posters, scrawling anti-Nazi graffiti, assassinating Nazi officials, & plotting to bomb the Cologne Gestapo headquarters. (1/7)
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